In Saluting the Slurry Pit, Estelle Woolley stages a performative intervention that juxtaposes the disciplined stillness of a yoga pose with the raw presence of a working farm environment. Positioned on a piece of agricultural machinery, her body becomes a poised statue, an embodied plinth held in delicate balance above the slurry pit below.

This site-specific performance interrogates the relationship between the human body and rural industrial landscapes, inviting reflection on the tensions between purity and contamination, meditation and labour. By adopting a pose associated with mindfulness and spiritual elevation within a context of waste and agricultural production, Woolley reconfigures the act of salutation as one directed not toward the sun, but toward the abject.

The work operates simultaneously as a photographic documentation and as a live, ephemeral gesture: an experimental encounter between the body, the machine, and the material realities of place. In this quiet confrontation, Woolley’s body becomes both a site of vulnerability and resilience, engaging the viewer in a meditation on balance, environment, and the systems that sustain us.